Word: lindberghism
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...pockets of his friends. He watched the aviators on Long Island preparing for the flight to Paris in the spring of 1927. He came to know Charles Augustus Lind bergh, and etched his portrait directly on copper plate from memory, aided by a photograph, the day Lindbergh landed in Paris. Exhibited in Manhattan while Paris was still cheering, that bit of work did much to establish West. The impressions are now worth about $100 each...
...asking that a list of the other guests be first submitted to him as though he were royalty. He also said: "I sat right next to the wives of our delegation [at the opening of the conference]. . . . Mrs. Morrow was telling me what an awful fine son-in-law Lindbergh had turned out to be. . . . When Mr. Stimson said we will stay here till the world disarms, his wife says, 'My Lord...
...vagabonded all over Europe, speaks four languages fluently and has never been known to exhibit any signs of embarrassment. Every year he goes abroad in a cattleboat and returns in the Imperial Suite of the Bremen with Charles Lindbergh and Gene Tunney. He knows his James Joyce and can quote Millay by the hour. Above all, he is always courteous, correct, and an extremely presentable young gentleman, despite the fact that he has usually imbibed more imported grade A spirits than Bismarck could have consumed in his halcyon days...
...Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh dined at San Diego last week with the J. L. Madduxes, their week-end hosts, a trimotored Ford of the T9. A. T.-Maddux Line (both men are company officials), which earlier in the evening they had heard flying North towards Los Angeles, crashed 35 miles away. Of "worst" crashes (TIME. July 1) this was worst-3 killed by explosion, 13 incinerated...
...herrings; for cod he had no use whatever. He owed much to the three kind-hearted gatekeepers who cooked his food for him, and treated him as a man and a brother.'' One may assume that only the excessive modesty of Sir Wallis Budge-a sort of Lindbergh among Egyptologists-kept him from setting down the fact that for many years he personally contributed sixpence a week to buy tidbits of sole for Mike...